BnB Promo Pool #5
Written by the B&B Crew
Reviews - Here's our selection of this week's promo avalanche: Black Strobe, Huxley, Gesaffelstein, Matthew Dekay & Lee Burridge and many more get the review treatment from our trustworthy (?) crew...
Huxley – Let It Go (Hypercolour)
Hypercolour starts 2012 with a release featuring two of the most hotly tipped artists around with Huxleyʼs ʻLet it Goʼ featuring Eats Everything on the remix. The man first appeared on our radar right before the release of his Shower Scene EP (2011), a track so god damn heavy on the bass we couldn’t stop playing it. Oh the poor neighbours! Anyway, his latest track Let It Go is another thick slab of super groovy house. The original mix is a hook-riddled cut with a very nice breakdown and great overall vibe, while the Eats Everything Refuse remix gets all Roger Sanchez on us with its New York vibe and likewise vocals. Gold-plated house, yessir!
Rating: 7.7/10 | Release date: Out Now
Black Strobe - Italian Fireflies Remixes (Blackstrobe Records)
Ah yes, Black Strobe. How we’ve been dancing to your electro/pop/disco-filth in the mid-00s (quite viciously, actually), and how we’d wish those days would return. Sadly, we didn’t hear much from you until we stumbled across this remix package of one of your biggest hits. And quite a package it has become, we must say, so thanks for that. Richy Ahmed & Corey Baker have taken the best elements from the track and turned it into a fashionable disco stomper without losing the original vibe. Munk’s remix… well, it’s bit a bit too frivolous for our tastes, but Hey Today! soon comes crashing in with a very dark, low-tempo electro stomper for the electro Goths among us. Yan Wagner and Second Date deliver two nice semi-Italo reinterpretations, after which you yourself (Arnaud Rebotini) drop two remixes that can be called the best of the bunch. And the original mix is a nice extra. Now if you would be so kind as to get back in the studio to produce some new cuts, pretty please with sugar on top?
Rating: 8.1/10 | Release date: March 5th, 2012
Gesaffelstein – Conspiracy Remixes) (Turbo Recordings)
Techno’s new golden boy gets the remix treatment from some of the biggest players in the game. Up first is Unsubscribe’s (Dave Clarke!) remix of Aufstand, a deep and sinister monster of a track with a superb groove in the middle part. Brodinski’s remix of Viol is a fierce uptempo dancefloor destroyer with soaring electro synths and a massive climax, after which Milano drops a FURIOUS (yes, we had to write that in caps), slightly industrial techno bumper with a semi off-beat rhythm and a shitload of mindblowing fx. The Hacker’s turns Conspiracy Origins into a more static cut, yet with as much as flair as always and rigged with an insane climax, David Caretta’s powerful electro remix of Hatred is downright right on the money, after which The Lack Of Hope gets turned into a moody midnight manifest by Glass Figure. Sick stuff!
Rating: 8.8/10 | Release date: February 28th, 2012
Marc Romboy – Feelin’ (+ Christian Smith Remix) (Tronic)
Marc Romboy and Christian Smith team up for a new two-tracker on Smith’s famed Tronic label. The original mix of Feelin’ is a punchy and very enjoyable fuse between acid bass wobbles, pitchblack house grooves and ice cold German grooves, while Christian Smith delivers a more uptempo and much techier rework reminiscent of his latest track Get It Done.
Rating: 7.8/10 | Release date: March 5th, 2012
Matthew Dekay & Lee Burridge - Für Die Liebe (All Day I Dream)
All Day I Dream label chiefs Matthew Dekay & Lee Burridge's latest EP has already received rave reviews from pretty much every DJ that matters, and we can see why: Für Die Liebe is beautiful. The mid-paced groove is in every way supportive to what this track is all about: emotion. Silk strings and piano keys form a mesmerizing combination ine could only hope to hear on the dancefloor. A track to fall in love with.
Rating: 9.0/10 | Release date: Out now
The Junkies - Au Jour Le Jour (Sci+Tec Digital Audio)
Canadian duo The Junkies aim to introduce the rest of the globe with their muscular sound, and they kick off their world domination plan of nicely with this first EP for Sci-Tech. Opening track Tuco is a rather monotone but irresistible house/techno-shuffler with a particularly juicy bassline, while Au Jour Le Jour is a more darker and way trippier techno cut with well programmed vocals and, again, nice bass work. Closing things is Werq This, a more tech-house flavored track and the one with the best fx of the batch.
Rating: 7.7/10 | Release date: March 6th, 2012
Clouds - Optic EP (Turbo Recordings)
What do we have here, another Turbo release? Wooh! And it's a personal fave from label honcho Tiga too! This Optic EP is all about rattling house, techno and electro hybridism: Optic opens the EP with a twitchy electrohouse cut, Future Blaster is up next with its peak time synthesizer mania (pretty sure this one would destroy festival sites too), Vaults slaps us across the floor with an electro bass rocker armed with so much bass it almost gets embarrasing, after which Jesper Dahlback finishes the EP with a killer Scandinavian techno remix.
Rating: 7.7/10 | Release date: March 6th, 2012
